• KevinOnEarth@mstdn.io
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    1 month ago

    @CyberEgg @SaveTheTuaHawk
    Which calculations are you referring to?
    Nuclear waste disposal/storage is unavoidably accounted for in France as it is part of the budget and the responsibility of the generators of the waste themselves.

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      1 month ago

      The calculations of operating and maintenance cost. I have yet to see calculations of those where the cost of waste disposal and management is listed. It’s not a small factor, in Germany it costs around 1 billion anually after the end of nuclear, plus the ongoing search for a permanent storage site.

      Also, this is about Germany, not France. But since you bring up France, what are the betting odds for how many NPPs are going to be shut down this summer due to overheating river systems? How much are the cost of downtime, the environmental damge done to these rivers etc?